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Students in the Global Village will have the opportunity to interact not only with students from a variety of different national
and cultural backgrounds, but also a number of talented faculty and staff members who will help them learn, and guide them
on their way to becoming global citizens. Dr. Kristie Foell, Director of International Studies, will serve as Academic Director
of the Global Village. Dr. Nancy Brendlinger serves as the program director. Additionally, students will have access to
a graduate assistant assigned to the community, and an upper class resident advisor.
Faculty involved with Global Village include:
Dr. Kristie Foell:
Dr. Kristie Foell is Associate Professor of German and Director of International Studies at BGSU. Her interest in learning
communities traces back to her own undergraduate experience in Trumbull residential college at Yale and her service as Josselyn
House Fellow at Vassar College (NY). She is a native Midwesterner who studied on both coasts (Ph.D. from UC Berkeley) and
has traveled widely in Europe, having studied for a year each in Munich and Vienna, taught at the Humboldt University in Berlin
as a Fulbright fellow, and directed BGSU's study abroad program in Salzburg, Austria twice. Her favorite classes to teach
are International Studies (which she frequently offers at Global Village) and German Film. She also speaks pretty good French
and passable Italian, but her current linguistic passion is beginning Arabic!
Dr. Nancy Brendlinger:
Dr. Nancy Brendlinger joined Global Village officially this year as its associate director. Before Global Village was established,
she was already teaching the International Studies introductory course (INST 200). Plus she is an associate professor of journalism
in the School of Communication Studies, where she teaches about international media, reporting, feature writing and journalism
in the movies. Brendlinger has worked for Peace Corps, for USAID and as a Fulbright Scholar in Chad, Senegal, Indonesia, Slovakia
and Croatia, and as an exchange teacher in China. Now she participates in an environmental communication/cultural exchange
project with schools in Tunisia, Algeria. Her hobbies include travel in other countries and watching movies.
Sallee Dildine:
Global Village’s secretary has also traveled extensively – especially throughout Europe. Sallee has worked on the BGSU campus
for more than 12 years. Her hobbies include photography, home restoration, and collecting antiques. She has a hobby farm
with 3 horses, chickens, dogs and cats and is a grandmother to 3 wonderful little girls.
Lin Chafetz:
2007-2008 was Lin’s first year as the resident assistant in Global Village. She is originally from New York City, but now
calls North Ridgeville (near Cleveland) her home. She is a double major in Russian and International Photojournalism (an
independently designed major) and has studied abroad in Russia. In addition to Russian, she is working on her French skills.
She loves to eat organic food (like organic chocolate!) and has raised many animals as a 4-H member. Think 96 chickens,
9 goats, 12 ducks, 13 turkeys… and the list goes on.
Ayeesha Herrington:
Ayeesha Herrington is the 2008-2009 Graduate Assistant for the Global Village Living Learning community. She is originally
from Anchorage, Alaska and is currently a second-year graduate student in BGSU's College Student Personnel program. As an
emerging student affairs professional, Ayeesha truly enjoys working with both international and multicultural student populations.
In terms of interests, Ayeesha is a proud Global Village team leader with Habitat for Humanity International and hopes to
fulfill her love for traveling and service through her involvement with the organization. In her free time, Ayeesha enjoys
traveling (locally and internationally), working out, photography, public speaking, arts and crafts, and spending time with
her family.
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